New Kitchen United Webinar Offers Restaurants Tips to Optimize Delivery and Pick-Up, Demystifies Paycheck Protection Program

Kitchen United, the kitchen as a service company built to serve the fast growing world of off-premise dining, today announced it will host an informational webinar in an ongoing series to help restaurant operators navigate business during this challenging time. The webinar, scheduled for Wednesday, April 8 at 10:30 a.m. PDT, will specifically address best practices for delivery and pick-up amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and detailed insight on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Restaurant brands of any size are invited to join the free webinar via https://info.kitchenunited.com/takeout-delivery-best-practices-covid-19, as well as submit questions and topics of interest in advance. A replay will also be available on the company's website.

Kitchen United will share best practices for transitioning dine-in establishments to effective and efficient takeout and delivery businesses, and will cover topics from streamlining operations to marketing. Specifically, the webinar will address efficiencies for front-of-house layout and operations, audience building and marketing messaging, and menu design and special product offerings.

The webinar will also cover PPP and provide actionable steps that will help operators take advantage of the program in the immediate. The U.S. Federal government's Paycheck Protection Program authorizes up to $349 billion in forgivable loans to small businesses to pay their employees during the COVID-19 crisis.

"Restaurants have had to make the difficult decision to significantly reduce staff or shutter business entirely at this time, and there is a lack of clarity on how the PPP loan program will actually work," said Jim Collins, Chief Executive Officer of Kitchen United. "We'll try to clear up what we can and we'll point out where things remain unclear so restaurateurs can be smart about their next steps."

The webinar will be hosted by Jim Collins. Kitchen United CFO Michael Montagano will cover PPP, and additional team members will share insights, including Larrah Pawlak, who heads operations, Matt Maroni, who leads kitchen design and client consultation, and Elizabeth Villa who will cover marketing topics.

Additional webinars will be produced by Kitchen United to help restaurants on related topics.

About Kitchen United

Kitchen United is a kitchen as a service company that provides restaurant operators with a value-driven, low-risk way to enter into new markets, grow revenue through off-premise dining and expand delivery areas by removing barriers such as capital or technology challenges. For additional information, please visit: http://www.kitchenunited.com.